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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

Shoot, I'd say it takes a big nerve (AND a small mind, while we're at it) to send that cake to anyone! The dolphin/porpoise thingy is kind of cute, though, in a goofy way. (At least, he's/she's trying...!) =^e.e^=

Actually I believe it was a message for elementary teachers, I have seen similar sayings before.

[Editor's note- Yup. But there's a big difference between little minds and small minds. On a completely unrelated note, every time I say "Yup", I feel like I sound like Big Macintosh from My Little Pony. :) -john]

Reminds of the time I watched a middle school girl giving a Father's Day tribute, trying to say that her dad was really smart but didn't show off about it...by saying that he was "a man of modest intelligence."

It reminds me of the time when I was six that my teacher asked us to describe our family, and I, trying to be accurate, described my father, who has very fine, flyaway hair, as having "hair that looked as if it were trying to get away from him."

Completely true. I am 43 now, and I will never hear the end of this until the day I die.

I hope this was used in a passive aggressive way toward terrible parents from teachers! Maybe there was a different cake for the good parents and the nasty ones were given a piece of this one. I choose to accept this as reality.

I think "young minds" would have been a better choice of words. Reminds me of the saying-The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning (Mark Twain).

@sandy - I think you deserve kudos for the most Far Sidesque comment! :-)

@john(thoj) - My daughter totally cracked up when I told her what you said! She is my MLP wikipedia. I can count on her to explain just about anything MLP, including Bronies...she even told me there's Bronies in the armed forces! Wow, whodathunkit? Big manly fighters spending their spare time sitting around watching MLP! :-) (Hey, if it makes 'em happy, more power to them for breaking the manly stereotype, right? Bronies untie! Uh, unite! :-)